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Letters Patent No. '77,876,0latcd Hay 12,1868.

IMPROVEMENT IN DECORATING WALLS.

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Be it known that I, JAMES CVFINNLO' Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, haveinvented an Improvement in Decorating Walls; and I do hereby declarethefollowing to be a full, c1ear,"and.exact description of the'same. Myinvention consists in decorating the walls of rooms with amaterialcomposed of-veneers` or ornamental' papers, mounted on mnslin or stipaper, the said thaterial being secured to the walls in strips, panels,and other figures, by tacking the pieces, at the edges only, to thewalls, and covering the joints between the pieces with mouldings, whichform part of the decorations, all as described hereafter.

'lhe main object of my invention has been to dispense with the usualprocess of paper-hanging, and to establish a system of decoration whichcan be carried ont by an ordinary carpenter.y l l I willnow proceed todescribe the mode of carrying myinventien into e'eet, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing, which forms a part of thisspecification, andin which the gure represents part of the wall of aroom decorated according to my improvement. l

The material of which the decorationsare composed consists of stiffpaper, to theface of which are cemented` veneers of ornamental wood, orthe veneers may be mounted on muslin, or, in place of veneers,ornamental wall-papers of the better class may be-monnted on Innslin orpasted to comparatively stil? paper.

The material thus prepared may be varnished in front, and coated at thebackwith any suitable'waterproof paint, when the material is laid asidefor use, not in rolls, as with ordinary wall-paper, but in dat sheets.

-Supposing it be 'desired to decorate the walls ot' a room in the mannerillustrated in the drawing, and sup- -posing it has been determined tohave panels of maple, and horizontal strips B B and vertical strips C ofwalnut, panels of the desired size are cut from the sheets ofdecorating-material, with maple veneer, and are attached to the walls intheir proper relative position by lightly tasking them at their edgesonly,.ali other parts of each panel being separate from the wall. Theupper and lower strips B B', and vertical strips C of the jnaterial,with walnut veneer, are then lightly tacked to the wall in a similarmanner, the edges ofthe strips d meetingor nearly meeting the edges ofthe panels, the `upper strip, B, extending to the lower edge of thecornico of the ceiling, and the lower edge of the lower strip to thewashboa-rd.

Giltor plain, er ornamental mouldings, a, of wood, are then nailed:tothe wall in such anmanner as to enclose the panels, and cover the tacksand the jointsbetween the panels, and the vertical and horizontalstrips,

L u these mouldings thus aiding the tacks -in securing thedecorating-material to the wall, and elfectually concealing imperfectjoints. Y In like manner a gilt or other moulding, b, may be so securedyto the `wall at the lower edge of the cornice as to overlap thehorizontal strip B, conceal the tacks, and aid in securing the saidstrip, and, if desired, a similar moulding may be secured to the wall atthe washboard. i

\ rIhe wall is new entirely decorated without the aid oi' any paste orcement other than what may be necessary to-e'ect a junction, at fr,between the vertical and horizontal strips B Bl and C, and at thesepoints the horizontal strips may be made to slightly overlap the ends ofthe vertical strips, and-the overlapping portions :N 'K d cementedtogether without bringing the cementing-,Inaterial into contact with thew'all.

n It will be evident that in practising this Inode of decorating walls,the greatest varietyoflv both simple and elaborate ornamentation mayberesorted to, panels of' many di'erent forms maybe adopted, and` thesurface. ,q, I ot' the deeorating-material may be elaborately printed inolors orgilt, or may be of veneers of'any orna- :l I menta-l wood. l l.'f Independently of its applicability to the ornamentation of walls, myinvention possesses the following advantages overlordinarywall-paper.'decor.ationsI o First, the dimensions of the wall, the'patternoi' the material, and style'of panelling being given to themanufacturer, panels and strips of the desireddimensions can be preparedat the ma-nufactory, transported to the desired destination, andthen'appliedby any ordinary carpenter, the necessity of resorting to themoro' costly, tedious, and dirty process of paper-hanging being thusobviated.

s g f f' Seconci, as no part of the decorating-material is pasted tothe-ivalls, the back of the material may be made water-proof, in whichcase the outer surface of' the material will remain una'ected by dampivalls. i

Third, repairs, and even alterations, can be readily made, all that isnecessary being the removal of the mouldings, the detaching of a panelor strip, andthe replacing ofthe same with a. new'one ofthe sarnacharac; ter as or dill'ering from the first'.

claim as my invention, and flesire to secure by Letters Patent- Thedecorating of-wlls with a material composed of veneers or ornamentalpapers, mounted on muslin,l stiff paper, or other fabric, when the saidmaterial is `tacked ai; tlle'edges only to the walls, and when thejoints between the pieces are covered by mou'ldings or boadings formingpart of the decoration, all substantially as and for the purpose hereinAset forth. Y n

In testimonyivbereof, I have signed myname to this speecation'in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

JAMES C. FINN.

Witnesses: JOHN WHITE, C. B. PRICE.

